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  title info:
    title: Existentialism and the desirability of immortality
  name:
    name part: Buben, Adam
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 177 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new arguments and insights into the debate about the desirability of immortality, and tackles related issues such as boredom, personal identity, technological progress and the meaning of life. Immortality, in some form or another, is a common topic throughout the history of philosophy, but many thinkers who consider its possibility (or necessity) give little attention to the question of whether it would be worthwhile. Recent work on the topic has been dominated by transhumanists in pursuit of radical life extension, and philosophers from the analytic tradition who argue about the dangers of immortality. This book makes the case that continental thinkers, including Sren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Miguel de Unamuno, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir, have much to offer the debate on immortality. For most of these figures, it seems possible that an unending life would not preclude the preservation of personal identity or the sorts of dangers and deadlines required to maintain something like ordinary human values and fend off boredom. The author draws connections between these so-called "existentialists" and demonstrates how they contribute to an overarching argument about the desirability of immortality. Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the philosophy of death and the history of existentialism.
  note: Adam Buben.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Immortality (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Existentialism
  classification: BD423 .B83 2022
  classification: 129
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
  identifier: 1032247975
  identifier: 9781032247977
  identifier: 9781032249926
  identifier: 1032249927
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211211
    record change date: 20221116145408.3
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